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By flying a sortie in the Made in India light combat aircraft (LCA) from the Jodhpur airbase, Chief of staff of the US Air Force and Chief of staff of the French Air Force somehow did a worldwide brand promotion of the Tejas. The Chiefs of the two powerful ...DNA, 2 weeks ago

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will undertake a sortie in Indian Air Forces frontline Su-30MKI combat aircraft over Jodhpur on Wednesday, while reviewing the operational preparedness of the force.The defence minister will undertake the sortie to gauge and review the operational preparedness and combat capabilities of the armed forces, an Air Force spokesperson said.The defence minister was earlier scheduled to fly the Su-30MKI last month, but she could not go there due to her ...

Work has begun to integrate the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile on 40 Sukhoi combat aircraft which is expected to fulfil critical needs of the Indian Air Force in the wake of evolving security dynamics in the region. The air-launched variant of the Brahmos, the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile, was successfully test fired from a Sukhoi-30 combat jet on November 22, marking a major milestone to enhance the precision strike capability of the air force. The work to integrate the ...

The state govt has requested the Defence Ministry to set up manufacturing facility by HAL for Light Combat Aircrafts and Helicopters T E Narasimhan | Chennai Last Updated at January 18, 2018 14:46 IST Edappadi K Palaniswami The Tamil Nadu government is in the ...

A MiG 29K combat aircraft of the Indian Navy skid off the runway and caught fire at the Goa airport on Wednesday. The trainee pilot ejected safely before the plane crashed. The incident led to operations at the Goa airport being suspended from 12.30 pm to ...

Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen today hailed India's indigenously-built multi-role light combat aircraft Tejas as 'very very capable'.As the first civilian foreigner to fly on Tejas, Ng took a half-an-hour flight in the two-seater plane piloted by Air Vice Marshal A P Singh at the Kalaikunda airbase in West Bengal."It is a very very capable plane," Ng told reporters in Kalaikunda after flying on Tejas.Hailing Tejas as 'very impressive', Ng said, "This is the reason why our air force ...

The US is shifting combat and intelligence-gathering aircraft to Afghanistan as part of an intensified focus on the Taliban, now that the campaign against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is winding down, the commander of coalition air forces in ...

China has built a new type of electronic warfare aircraft which can cover bigger combat areas such as the South and East China seas and greatly enhance the Navy's capabilities in modern warfare, a media report said today.The People's Liberation Army (PLA) ...

[Singapore] Feb.13 (ANI): Defence and military experts are of the view that the frequent aircraft mishaps taking place in China and in its immediate neighbourhood should be seen as Beijing flexing its military might, rather than as incidents that will bring ...

'There is no secrecy clause to the price (of the aircraft).''There can be secrecy on the capability of the nuclear payload of aircraft and things like that, but the price is hardly a secret.' IMAGE: A Dassault Rafale fighter at the 52nd Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters On February 5, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stunned the nation when she told Parliament that the government would not divulge certain details, including the per unit cost, of the ...